Westward Expansion part 2
Across
- 2. machine that sent signal using an electric pulse along a wire
- 5. cheap way to fence in property-ended cattle drives (2wds)
- 6. westward expansion nearly caused this animal to go extinct
- 7. many union pacific workers were immigrants from this country
- 13. this company built part of the TCRR: started in Omaha and went west (2wds)
- 15. cutting down forests, adding railroad, building cities, and overhunting buffalo are __ changes from the TCRR (2wds)
- 17. this company built part of the TCRR: started in Sacramento and went east (2wds)
- 18. the TCRR changed the _ of the west - many more immigrants and people moved around, Chinese and Native Americans treated poorly
- 19. mail relay system that used young male riders on horseback (2wds)
Down
- 1. hurt by West. Exp. - forced off their land - conflict with US gov. and TCRR construction (2wds)
- 3. grew the population in California from 1,000 to 100,000 in 2 yr period (2wds)
- 4. areas of land where Native Americans were expected to relocate
- 8. there were many cattle in this state and they were worth a lot in the northeast
- 9. many central pacific workers were immigrants from this country
- 10. famous general from the Civil War who underestimated the Lakota Tribe at Little Bighorn
- 11. invented the telegraph machine
- 12. this site in South Dakota is where more than 150 Native Americans were slaughtered (2wds)
- 14. the TCRR took a heavy toll on the __
- 16. these men drove cattle from Texas north to the rail system